There is a difference between the freedom of a still mind and the freedom of no mind.
The freedom of a still mind is like kayaking in still water. It is peaceful.
You can direct attention wherever you choose, and it rests there because you
are so still. And it is almost useless in regular life.
The freedom of no mind is like kayaking with no fixed point inside you. You are
not separate from what you experience. You are not watching it.
How do you lose your mind? You look again and again at what
cannot be seen, your own mind. Stillness helps with that looking. It helps a
lot. Yet stillness by itself, even the extraordinary stillness of infinite
space, infinite consciousness and so on, is not enough.
You have to see. And to see, you have to look.
Look again and again at what cannot be seen. At some point you see nothing - you
really see nothing. You know, through your own experience, that there is no you
in you, no fixed point - nothing. That experience makes all the difference. As
thoughts, feelings and sensations arise in your life, you experience them
without any fixed reference point. They are not "other."
You move with them and through them, just like you move with and through the
waves in a kayak in the ocean.
What do you do about thoughts, feelings and sensations? Nothing. They are free,
free, to come and go on their own, just like the waves in the ocean.
…and so are you, because you have lost your mind.
TMMK
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